We offer a wide variety of quality used books, board and card games and bookish gifts in the heart of the West Side of Buffalo, NY. From Asimov to Zola, you'll find it here.

What To Expect

We typically do not buy books in cash, rather we offer store credit.

Most books in our shop are priced between $3 and $7. Typically, you can expect to get $.50- $2 in store credit for good condition books we need. If your book is rare and more valuable, we can work out a higher credit or cash price. Many books that you bring in will be great books that we just can't use. Please don't take it as a judgment on your taste-- it's a shelf space issue!

If you have more than one box of books, please try to bring them on a weekday. We won't turn books away if it's the only day you can come, but we would strongly prefer not to take in large numbers of books on weekends.

If you do not want to drag your books in, feel free to snap a few photos of the spines and email them to us at info@westside-stories.com.

What We Typically Don't Take

encyclopedias;

reader's digest & Time Life series

most popular romance, mystery and crime thrillers (Patterson, Cornwell, Grisham, Brown, Twilight, etc.) unless it is the most recent book.

mass market (pocket size) paperbacks;

former library books;

most children's books. If you just want to donate them, we will put them in our free kids bin.

books that have been exposed to water or smoke or heavily creased or soiled.

Hardcover books missing the dust jacket;

magazines, videos, CDs

college textbooks

Trade Credit Policies

We'd love to take all your books and give you all the books you want for them. Unfortunately, the fine folks at the electric and gas company won't trade with us too! To help us convert your trades into the cash we need to keep the lights on, we've implemented the following trade credit policies, which can be summarized in two simple rules: we can't trade your used items for our new items and we can't trade our high demand books for books that have less customer demand. Easy enough, right? Here's the specifics:

Trade credit can only be used to purchase used books. Items that cannot be purchased with trade credit includes gift items (e.g. bags, tiles, mugs), stationary & cards, games, food & drinks and clothing. Books being sold on consignment, current best sellers and used books from our rare, signed & collectible cases are also excluded.

Trade credit is valid for one year from date of issue.

Books left in the store for evaluation for trade credit that we don't purchase must be picked up within one week of notification of the credit issued. Books that are not picked up will be donated to the Goodwill or Salvation Army.

Trade credit slips are transferable. Can't use it within a year or discarding books before a move? Give it to a friend.

A credit slip must be presented to redeem credit. Slips that have been altered or are damaged to the point of illegibility are not redeemable.